Cherry Glen Learning Farm

Cherry Glen Learning Farm Our mission is to provide an educational space that allows for reproducible, hands on demonstrations for profitable, resilient and sustainable agriculture.

Iowa's first designed Watershed Mitigation Farm
capturing surface water and high nitrate farm tile water, providing free water for drip irrigation for 10 acres. Clean water is returned to the aquifer or released as clean discharge. Provide transferable education space for hands-on demonstration.

Cherry Glen Learning Farm is funded by Watershed Mitigation Farm
10/02/2023

Cherry Glen Learning Farm is funded by Watershed Mitigation Farm

Chinese students cook authentic foods.
11/04/2022

Chinese students cook authentic foods.

County Supervisor visits Watershed Mitigation Farm
09/13/2022

County Supervisor visits Watershed Mitigation Farm

08/09/2022

Finally, we have some good news about Japanese beetles!

A natural predator of the Japanese beetle — known as the winsome fly — is starting to kill Japanese beetles in Minnesota and at the Arboretum, says the Arb’s Integrated Pest Management Specialist, Erin Buchholz.

This parasitoid fly lays its eggs on the beetles. When the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow inside the Japanese beetle, causing it to lose ability to function, so that it will die in a matter of days, even before it lays eggs for its next generation.

As you can see in this photo (taken of beetles sampled at the Arboretum), the eggs are laid in instances of one or more on the beetles’ backs on the thorax area near their heads.

Since this is a fly you definitely want in your garden, letting beetles like this live might be worth any damage they cause. It may also be yet another reason to avoid traps and blankets of insecticides.

Learn more at tinyurl.com/winsome-fly

05/17/2022

Louis Masai is a London-based painter, sculptor and muralist.

He uses his art in the form of murals, paintings and installations as a way to highlight the 6th mass extinction, climate change and species equality

An artist determined to raise awareness of the plight of bees and their importance to our survival on Earth 🐝

Art by Louis Masai

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🌿Environmental Conservation 🌿

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👉🏻Here's actions you can take to help and bee engaged in their protection:

🌿Plant pollinator-friendly plants in your garden, terraces or balconies

🌿Avoid using pesticides

🌿Offer a habitat to pollinators by installing an insect hotel

🌿Make a bee bath

🌿Buy organic and local food

🌿Look after parks and green spaces

🌿The conservation of indigenous bee species and local diversity is important to the long-term viability of bee species 🐝🌿



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3989 NW 94th Avenue
Polk City, IA
50226

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